Inaugural Nitrocross champion Timmy Hansen will be making his long-awaited return to the series at this week’s 2023-24 season finale in Las Vegas, driving for reigning champion team Dreyer & Reinbold JC.Hansen last raced in the series in 2021, the category’s first as a full multi-event championship, where he finished...

Nitrocross president Brett Clarke says that the series’ rebrand from Nitro Rallycross was done because it doesn’t “fit within the conventional prescriptions for the sport of rallycross,”The competition debuted in 2018 and used traditional European-derived "Supercar" rallycross cars until last year, when its top class switched to the single-make, all-electric...

Nitro Rallycross will rebrand as "Nitrocross" for the upcoming season, with the series keen to promote its uniqueness and distance itself from more traditional rallycross, RACER can reveal.The series began in 2018 as a single event at the Nitro World Games action sports competition before expanding into a fully-fledged, multi-round...

Lewis Hamilton’s X44 Vida Carbon Racing team kick-started its Extreme E title defense with victory in the third round of the season. But while the name above the door -- and one of the team’s drivers -- may be the same as the past two campaigns, it’s very much a...

Leading U.S. rally and rallycross outfit Vermont SportsCar is aiming to expand its presence in Nitro Rallycross’ headline all-electric Group E category after acquiring two more FC1-X race cars, doubling its total number of entries in the series.VSC has been a mainstay in U.S.-based rallycross since the discipline had its...

Robin Larsson secured the 2022-23 Nitro Rallycross title with victory in the season finale at Glen Helen Raceway in California.Larsson endured a tough start to the triple-header event, finishing off the podium on both Friday and Saturday, but was able to turn it up exactly when it mattered to lock...

Travis Pastrana became the first three-time winner of the 2022-23 Nitro Rallycross victory after dominating the second part of the season-ending triple header event at Glen Helen Raceway in California.The reigning series champion, who won at ERX Motor Park in Minnesota and Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park in Phoenix earlier...

Andreas Bakkerud got his Nitro Rallycross championship charge back on track with a win in the first part of the season-ending tripleheader at Glen Helen Raceway in California.A winner in Sweden earlier in the campaign, Bakkerud has been off the podium for the previous two championship rounds in Phoenix and...

Nitro Rallycross will award the champion of its headline Group E class the "Ken Block Championship Trophy" in tribute to the late rally driver.Block, who was a competitor in Nitro RX's early days as well as the two series that preceded it, Global Rallycross -- where he was a six-time...

Rally driver Benito Guerra will join the Nitro Rallycross field for its season-ending tripleheader at Glen Helen Raceway in California this weekend, and is eyeing a full campaign next season.The 2012 Production World Rally champion and 2019 Race of Champions winner will drive an additional entry for Olsbergs MSE alongside...